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In a step toward home-helper robots that can quickly navigate unpredictable and disordered spaces, University of Michigan researchers have developed an algorithm that lets machines perceive their environments orders of magnitude ...#Environment & Nature

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All chimpanzees eat animals at least sometimes, including anything from ants and termites to bushpigs and even baboons. Monkeys, in fact, are typically the most frequent item on the menu, and in some cases chimpanzees can eat so many monkeys they t#Environment & Nature

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Worsening storms have destructive effects both on infrastructure and on the physical health of affected people. They also significantly increase the risk of post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health harms in individuals in the path of storms.#Environment & Nature

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2019’s hurricane season got off to an early start—just like in 2018. And 2017. And 2016. And 2015. That means a record five years in a row have seen a named storm form before June 1, the official start date of Atlantic hurricane season.#Environment & Nature

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Over the past few decades, strict emissions and clean fuel rules in California have helped improve air quality, driving down levels of harmful pollutants like nitrogen dioxide and particulate matter. And, as air quality went up, fewer kids were diagnosed with asthma, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.#Environment & Nature

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Next-generation 5G mobile communications technology could have a harmful impact on weather forecasting in the United States, based on expert testimony presented before a U.S. House committee during a hearing on the future of weather forecasting. Interference from 5G wireless phones could reduce the accuracy of weather forecasts by 30 percent, said Neil Jacobs, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere at NOAA.#Environment & Nature

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In a surprising and counterintuitive proposal published Monday in the journal Nature Sustainability, Stanford University scientists argue that we can limit warming by chemically converting methane to carbon dioxide.#Construction;#Agriculture & Gardening;#Environment & Nature

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Between 1946 and 1958, the US government tested 67 nuclear weapons in the Marshall Islands. It later dumped radioactive waste from the tests into a crater on one of the islands, placing an 18-inch-thick concrete dome over the horrifying sludge.#Environment & Nature